Memorials and Monuments on the Isle of Wight - Shanklin Cemetery : Leslie Walter Banting

Location

In Shanklin Cemetery, Shanklin, Isle of Wight

Description

Grave location 1390.

Headstone

Shanklin Cemetery : Leslie Walter Banting

Photo by Mick McCann,
British War Memorial Project

Inscription

IN LOVING MEMORY OF

LESLIE WALTER BANTING
WHO DIED OF WOUNDS RECEIVED
IN FRANCE
OCTOBER 12TH 1917 AGED 25

ALSO OF JOSEPH BANTING WHO DIED
AUGUST 31ST 1918 AGED 53

ALSO OF
ELIZABETH S L BANTING
WHO DIED MAY 24TH 1948
AGED 83

"THE ETERNAL GOD IS OUR REFUGE
AND UNDERNEATH ARE THE
EVERLASTING ARMS"

Name :

Leslie Walter Banting.

Son of Joseph Banting and Elizabeth Sarah L Banting (nee Colenutt) of Shanklin.
Born in 1892 in Shanklin.

Commemorated on these Memorials :

Shanklin
Shanklin St Blasius' Church
Shanklin St Paul's Church
Carisbrooke Castle County War Memorial

Service details :

Private 93992 Leslie Walter Banting, Depot, Sherwood Foresters (Notts and Derby Regiment)

CWGC record ...

Service records : not found

Medal Index Card : British War Medal, Victory Medal.

Date of Death :

12 October 1917 aged 25

Further Information

Census 1901 : Family at Ryecroft, Atherley Road, Shanklin.

Census 1911 : Family at Ryecroft, Atherley Road, Shanklin. Leslie Banting is described as a "Florist's son working in nursery".

IW County Press : 20 October 1917 : BANTING - Oct 12, at the King George Hospital, London, died of wounds received in France, Pte. L Banting, Sherwood Foresters, elder son of Mr and Mrs J Banting, of Atherley-road, Shanklin, aged 25.

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Page last updated : 27 December 2009

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